A photographer was organised by Islington Council to come to the community centre where I work for myself and my embroidery class to be photographed.

I have an inspiring story, in that I sent three of my girls to Hector Maclean to give them industry experience of working with a fashion designer on a fashion collection for LFW AW 2025. It was an eye opener for them and two of my learners worked on Pretty Queen with the other learner working on the Rosette dress. It was a major learning curve for them as they did not know what to expect with working for a fashion designer, in my classes I create the project that consists of a design, the stitches I want to teach that term and then the actual physical product, also we work a lot with calico as the budget stretches to that.

It felt right for summer 2025 that I needed to help Hector with his beading for the collection SS’26, it was a great opportunity for my creative juices to flow to increase my own ideas for private work. I was able to work on the “Beaded blood spinal cord” and the “Dragon eye dress”.

I have created two videos that gives you the chance to experience what it is like as an embroidery designer working on a collection and then being part of the fashion show. Sewing with Samines